Aunt Kelli Comes to Austin!

We were beyond excited when Aunt Kelli called and told us she wanted to fly down for a few days while she had a break between jobs. Her visit would only be a couple weeks before our trek to Utah for the summer, but we can never see family too much and one on one time is hard to find when we are in the 801. It was quality time spent with one of my favorite (and I’m sure my boys would say the same) people ever. We love this Aunt Kelli so much!

Now that her visit has come and gone, it is kind of hard to remember exactly what we did, because there was lots of relaxing and LOTS of girl talk for 4 days straight!

The day after she got here, she just kinda spent the day with us doing our usual. We went to the library, grocery store and Torchy’s Tacos, of course!

My boys loved her phone, and you can see why…

Um, it’s GIANT! I think any phone experience is way better on that computer—I mean, phone.
(This was a common site to see the boys attached to her side. Melted my heart!)

We were lucky enough to have here for Thad’s preschool graduation! (More to come on that)

Having family around to celebrate is always more fun!

We were sad to celebrate more without dad, but it was the only night we could squeeze in the best BBQ we have discovered in Texas.

Rudy’s did not disappoint, and my boys even ate more than just the bread!

Thursday was spent downtown in the thick of the city. The weather was perfect and the company was even better.

We started things off at Mt. Bonnell – The perfect way to view the true “hill country.”

Afterwards we headed to campus.
I mean, it is the main attraction and all…it’s the WHOLE reason we are here!

Don’t worry, we’re working on Wes’ “Hook ‘em!” We’ve got time…

After our mini tour we parked over near South Congress and got some DELICIOUS lunch at Home Slice Pizza. 

And this is the main reason we decided to eat there:

Kelli thought it was the cutest thing (and really, so did I) that they got their very own pizza dough to play with!

The boys loved it too and as you can see of Wes’ bottom lip he loved it a little too much and wanted to taste test it.

Oh, and here are all of my amazing boys while waiting to get seated for our pizza-

I could just eat them up!
I love seeing these boys trying to be just like their dad, because it would be the best ever if they grew up to be just like him!
 

Big Top Candy Shop and a Nutella-Pretzel shake from Hopdoddy were the last stops on our city adventure.

The boys were PUMPED about visiting this darling shop again and I think between the candy and ice cream, Kelli and I made ourselves sick!
So worth it.

And as you can see, our little Wes was POOPED after our fun day!

He was almost asleep and then we would say something funny or tickle his legs and he would briefly open his eyes for a giggle and close them again.
I love this sweet two year old of mine! 

We spent our last night just hanging out, making ourselves more sick with some Blue Bell ice cream and then it was off pretty early for this lady Friday morning.

We weren’t as happy as these boys looked to be sending her off, but we were all just so happy to know we would be seeing her three short weeks later.
Yay for aunts and family and fun trips. Life doesn’t get much better!
Thanks Aunt Kelli, see you soon!!